Every start of a year holds the promise of the new discovery of species inhabiting the fringes of the wild areas of the world. Most years are full of frustrations, as the big cryptids stay well hidden.

But in 2019, at least, we know some more good cryptozoology books will be published.

Let’s look at the hints that are on the horizon. (Needless to say, the book business is a secretive affair, so the ones below are projects I’ve been alerted to recently. If you know more, please share.)

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The Big Muddy Monster: Legends, Sightings & Other Strange Encounters

Big Muddy Publishing

by Chad Lewis, Noah Voss and Kevin Nelson (Foreword by Loren Coleman)

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Momo: The Missouri Monster (working title)

Self-published

by Lyle Blackburn

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Bigfoot in Maine

Formerly was going to be Idyll Arbor, Inc./Pine Winds Press. New plans, TBA.

A biography of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the East-London museum curator who would save the first Coelacanth specimen for science thanks to Captain Hendrik (‘Harry’) Goosen in 1938, is due in 2019. The book is called Curator and Crusader. The Life and Work of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and will be available June 2019.

Cœlacanthe: un poisson énigmatique

by Lionel Cavin

in French

From Switzerland, Rik Nulens received word that another new coelacanth book is forthcoming.

Lionel Cavin, the conservator of the Département de géologie et paléontologie at the Muséum d’Histoire naturelle in Geneva, Switzerland, with a speciality in fossil fishes, has written a book : Cœlacanthe: un poisson énigmatique.

This edition will be available in January 2019 and is written in French.